Editorial Contributor
Robbie Burns’ Top 10 tips For surviving the markets The editor of this magazine emails me to give me a deadline for this month’s issue but adds whether I could write something a bit different this time. Obviously I began to write back: “Different?!! Whatdaya mean... last month’s not good enough eh? Go and stuff ...” Then I remembered he bought me a very expensive lunch recently... so, okay then. To be fair to me, I only ordered the second most expensive main and the fourth most expensive wine... Anyway, I mailed him back politely asking him for a suggestion. He came back with a good one: “How’s about Robbie’s top 10 tips for surviving the current market environment?”
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Excellent. It is a question of survival. I’ve survived. Cue in “Eye of the Tiger” music in your mind now. And I like thinking up Top Ten’s; though sometimes it is a struggle to find number 10 which is usually the craziest. So, in the hopeful spirit of nabbing an even more expensive lunch next time, here they are: